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NUS and NTU ranked higher than Chinese, Japanese and Hong Kong universities in terms of the number of top 10 programmes, and have done so since at least 2021.
Tamils celebrate the Tamil New Year, Puthandu, on the 14th of April. As part of the festivities, Tamils gather with their families and partake in a vegetarian feast. Vegetarian foodways play a significant role in Tamil culture and have featured in academic scholarship. However, Asst. Prof. Indira Arumugam (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) directs the focus […]
Column on Suria News Online by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.
Dr Soksamphoas Im, 2024 LKC NUS-Stanford Fellowship awardee, is visiting FASS from 8 April to 31 May 2024. She is working on ‘Authoritarian Resiliency: Cambodia’s Politics of Social Protection Policy’, a research project and future book that examines Cambodia’s National Social Protection Policy Framework 2016-2025’s IDPoor Program. The project builds on her dissertation research on the […]
Spanning across the fields of Business, Computing, Engineering, Science, as well as Humanities and Social Sciences, 19 of NUS’ 44 ranked programmes have been placed among the world’s top 10.
Column on CNA Online by Jonathan Sim, Associate Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy and Lecturer from NUS Philosophy.
The hybrid conference, attended by 800 social work practitioners, healthcare professionals, policymakers and researchers, shone a spotlight on the various approaches to help youths cope with social media pressures – from digital initiatives to providing more support at school and at home.
In April 2020, the Singapore government launched the GoWhere Suite, an all-in-one portal to direct citizens to the resources they needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, one of the key websites in the suite, the SupportGoWhere site, has been used extensively, receiving 4.8 million visits as of June 2022. As society progresses, the government’s […]
Column in The Straits Times by Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser from NUS Sociology and Anthropology and Academic Adviser to the Social Lab at the Institute of Policy Studies at NUS, and Mr Hanniel Lim, Research Assistant at Institute of Policy Studies at NUS.
Launched on 20 March 2024 with Minister for Education Mr Chan Chun Sing as the Guest of Honour, this festival was organised by the Autonomous Universities (AUs) in Singapore and is supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). It features 13 events over a month-long period.